Scientific Reports Chemistry Table of Contents e-alert: 17 February 2015

17 February 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Chemical Sciences               ZnO Nanocomposites Modified by Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Silanes with Dramatically Enhanced Tunable Fluorescence and Aqueous Ultrastability toward Biological Imaging Applications ▶     Shuying Li, Zongzhao Sun, Rui Li et al.     Multicolor ZnO quantum dots (QDs) were synthesized and further modified with hydrophobic hexadecyltrimethoxysilane (HDS) and then hydrophilic aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APS) …             Visualization of Endogenous and Exogenous Hydrogen Peroxide Using A Lysosome-Targetable Fluorescent Probe ▶     Dabin Kim, Gyoungmi Kim, Sang-Jip Nam et al.     Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play crucial roles in diverse physiological processes; therefore, the efficient detection of ROS is very crucial. In this study, we report a …             Thickness Dependent Effective Viscosity of a Polymer Solution near an Interface Probed by a Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation Method ▶     Jiajie Fang, Tao Zhu, Jie Sheng et al.     The solution viscosity near an interface, which affects the solution behavior and the molecular dynamics in the solution, differs from the bulk. This paper measured the effective …             Controlled Synthesis of Pd/Pt Core Shell Nanoparticles Using Area-selective Atomic Layer Deposition ▶     Kun Cao, Qianqian Zhu, Bin Shan et al.     We report an atomic scale controllable synthesis of Pd/Pt core shell nanoparticles (NPs) via area-selective atomic layer deposition (ALD) on a modified surface. The method …             Facile fabrication of various zinc-nickel citrate microspheres and their transformation to ZnO-NiO hybrid microspheres with excellent lithium storage properties ▶     Qingshui Xie, Yating Ma, Deqian Zeng et al.     Zinc-nickel citrate microspheres are prepared by a simple aging process of zinc citrate solid microspheres in nickel nitrate solution. As the concentration of nickel nitrate …             An Effect of Molecular Motion on Carrier Formation in a Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Film ▶     Yudai Ogata, Daisuke Kawaguchi, Keiji Tanaka     Free carriers, polarons (P), in conjugated polymers play a key role in the performance of optoelectronic devices. Here, we present solid evidence that P can be predominantly …             Facile synthesis of novel graphene sponge for high performance capacitive deionization ▶     Xingtao Xu, Likun Pan, Yong Liu et al.     Capacitive deionization (CDI) is an effective desalination technique offering an appropriate route to obtain clean water. In order to obtain excellent CDI performance, a …             Energetics and Structural Characterization of the large-scale Functional Motion of Adenylate Kinase ▶     Elena Formoso, Vittorio Limongelli, Michele Parrinello     Adenylate Kinase (AK) is a signal transducing protein that regulates cellular energy homeostasis balancing between different conformations. An alteration of its activity can lead …             Dependence of structure and temperature for lithium-rich layered-spinel microspheres cathode material of lithium ion batteries ▶     Di Wang, Ruizhi Yu, Xianyou Wang et al.     Homogeneous lithium-rich layered-spinel 0.5Li2MnO3·0.5LiMn1/3Ni1/3Co1/3O2 microspheres (~1 μm) are successfully prepared by a solvothermal method and subsequent high-temperature …             Inexpensive Antimony Nanocrystals and Their Composites with Red Phosphorus as High-Performance Anode Materials for Na-ion Batteries ▶     Marc Walter, Rolf Erni, Maksym V. Kovalenko     Sodium-ion batteries increasingly become of immense research interest as a potential inexpensive alternative to Lithium-ion batteries. Development of high-energy-density negative …             Role of Co-Vapors in Vapor Deposition Polymerization ▶     Ji Eun Lee, Younghee Lee, Ki-Jin Ahn et al.     Polypyrrole (PPy)/cellulose (PPCL) composite papers were fabricated by vapor phase polymerization. Importantly, the vapor-phase deposition of PPy onto cellulose was assisted by …             Tape Transfer Atomization Patterning of Liquid Alloys for Microfluidic Stretchable Wireless Power Transfer ▶     Seung Hee Jeong, Klas Hjort, Zhigang Wu     Stretchable electronics offers unsurpassed mechanical compliance on complex or soft surfaces like the human skin and organs. To fully exploit this great advantage, an autonomous …             Hybrid luminescence materials assembled by [Ln(DPA)3]3− and mesoporous host through ion-pairing interactions with high quantum efficiencies and long lifetimes ▶     Qing-Feng Li, Dan Yue, Wei Lu et al.     A kind of mesoporous hybrid luminescence material was assembled through the ion exchange method between [Ln(DPA)3]3− and ionic liquid functionalized SBA-15. [Ln(DPA)3]3− was …             Minimising hydrogen sulphide generation during steam assisted production of heavy oil ▶     Wren Montgomery, Mark A. Sephton, Jonathan S. Watson et al.     The majority of global petroleum is in the form of highly viscous heavy oil. Traditionally heavy oil in sands at shallow depths is accessed by large scale mining activities. …             Tuning Interior Nanogaps of Double-shelled Au/Ag Nanoboxes for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering ▶     Weiqing Zhang, Mohsen Rahmani, Wenxin Niu et al.     Double-shelled Au/Ag hollow nanoboxes with precisely controlled interior nanogaps (1 to 16 nm) were synthesized for gap-tunable surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). The …             Microscopic Receding Contact Line Dynamics on Pillar and Irregular Superhydrophobic Surfaces▶     Yong Han Yeong, Athanasios Milionis, Eric Loth et al.     Receding angles have been shown to have great significance when designing a superhydrophobic surface for applications involving self-cleaning. Although apparent receding angles …             Efficient Organic Photovoltaics Utilizing Nanoscale Heterojunctions in Sequentially Deposited Polymer/fullerene Bilayer ▶     Jeesoo Seok, Tae Joo Shin, Sungmin Park et al.     A highly efficient sequentially deposited bilayer (SD-bilayer) of polymer/fullerene organic photovoltaic (OPV) device is developed via the solution process. Herein, we resolve …             A high-resolution 2D J-resolved NMR detection technique for metabolite analyses of biological samples ▶     Yuqing Huang, Zhiyong Zhang, Hao Chen et al.     NMR spectroscopy is a commonly used technique for metabolite analyses. Due to the observed macroscopic magnetic susceptibility in biological tissues, current NMR acquisitions in …             A simple method for tuning the glass transition process in inorganic phosphate glasses ▶     René Fulchiron, Imane Belyamani, Joshua U. Otaigbe et al.     The physical modification of glass transition temperature (Tg) and properties of materials via blending is a common practice in industry and academia and has a large economic …                 nature.com webcasts Join us for our upcoming webcast with live Q&A: BioPharma Dealmakers: Drug Delivery   Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 Time: 8AM PST, 11AM EST, 4PM GMT, 5PM CET   Register for FREE    Sponsored by: Polymer Factory, Pulmatrix, Phosphorex, Nanovelos         • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Research Assistant     University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC)            PhD Position - Developmental Neuroscience     Charite - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin            Postdoctoral Research Scientists     The Babraham Institute            Postdoctoral Research Fellow     University of Edinburgh            Postdoctoral Fellow     Stanford University School of Medicine            Scientific Research Assistant     Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg            Director of Research     Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research            Research Associate Position     Lady Davis Institute of Medical Research            Post Doctoral Research Assistant     Queen Mary University of London            PhD Studentship     University of Birmingham          No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. 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